The search is on for a public artist to create the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial!
In collaboration with Workers United, the FDNY, NYU, the Kheel Center, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, family members of the victims, historians and community leaders, we are launching an effort to create a public memorial for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
If you are an artist interested in designing the memorial please download our RFQ to apply.
Deadline: August 27, 2010
The call is now closed.
How else can you get involved??
- Help spread the word! Send our link or the RFQ to anyone who you think might be a good candidate – we want as wide a pool of artists as possible!
- The artist selection committee is listening – we want to know what you want from a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial and what other memorials have had the greatest impact on you. Please post your comments below or on our Facebook Page or send us an email (info@rememberthetrianglefire.org). Later this month we will host an open meeting for more discussion. We will distill the responses and share them with the full committee and the prospective artists.
- Donate. Creating a memorial is not an inexpensive enterprise. We are accepting donations through our fiscal sponsor City Lore a 501 (c) 3 (Memorial funds will be held separately from our general fund).
Questions or concerns? Email us: info@rememberthetrianglefire.org
What kind of input is the most helpful?
- Please do NOT send us the names of artists – Instead send them a link to this page & ask them to apply!
- Think about what you would like people to experience with the memorial – it can be many things at once – educational, emotional, inspiring. What is most important to you?
- Below are some memorials that Kendal Henry our wonderful Public Arts Administrator shared with us. If you know of other works that you found particularly compelling please let us know and we will add them to the list:
Vietnam War Memorial
JR
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. Please turn up the volume on your computer to experience this section.
Tribute in Light
Ghost Bikes
What is Missing
E Pluribus Unum & the Indianapolis Cultural Trail
Charles La Trobe
Jules Verne Tribute
Other Memorials (thanks for submitting these!):
Stoperstein
… And Counting
Dear Sirs,
I read an article in the Jewish Daily Forward indicating that the memorial tender has been re-opened.
I am a British born and educated sculptor, and made Aliyah in 1988 and am based in Jerusalem, where I continue to create my art, setting up Jerusalem’s only independent sculpture school, exhibiting and placing an array of public sculpture.
I am also an active associate of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
I would love the opportunity to suggest an idea both poignant and Jewish in content
Yours
Paul Taylor
This is great Elissa – the picture is wonderful – thanks for the link!
The memorial at Little Big Horn which manages to include and yet remember a very bitter history also among the tribes that fought on different sides, is extremely effective in part because it uses silhouettes to help give a sense of urgency and movement.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/des_bighorn.html
That’s a great one – thanks Anne!
A wonderful, moving memorial to 54th Massachusetts, the first African-American regiment in the Civil War
http://www.iboston.org/mcp.php?pid=mass54&laf=pap